Myriad
Myriad 3D logo
Developer	Movidius
Manufacturer	TSMC
Type	Neural Processors
Introduction	2010 (announced)
Architecture	VLIW
µarch	SHAVE v2.0, SHAVE v3.0
Process	65 nm 0.065 μm 6.5e-5 mm , 28 nm 0.028 μm 2.8e-5 mm , 16 nm 0.016 μm 1.6e-5 mm
Technology	CMOS

Myriad (also Myriad 3D Platform) is a family of ultra-low power hardware accelerators designed by Movidius specifically designed to accelerate vision processing.

Overview

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Myriad 1

See also: SHAVE v2.0 Microarchitecture

Myriad 1 Evaluation Board

The Myriad 1 (MA11xx) family of vision accelerators was introduced in 2009 and have undergone a number of enhancements along the way, each released under a new model and building on its predecessors. The Myriad 1 family is largely based on the SABRE test chip they've developed the prior year. All the models have the same basic features:

• Nona-core processor
  • Eight SHAVE v2.0 cores
  • 1 SPARC LEON3 managing core
• 180 MHz
• TSMC's 65 nm process
• Up to 20 GFLOPS
• 1 MiB of shared memory (8x 128 KiB)

Models: (most of the differences are in the video capabilities of the chip)

• MA1100, advanced real-time video editing accelerator for smartphones
  • MA1101, Added Android-OS support to the MS1100
    • MA1102, Added high-quality image/audio effects, Dolby, DTS
• MA1110, added support for 720p 30fps video recording and playback, real-time video editing, inline video, and 12-megapixel captures
• MA1133, video streams accelerator for auto-stereoscopic screens for smartphones
• MA1135, specifically for 3D converter box applications

Myriad 2

See also: SHAVE v3.0 Microarchitecture

This family first came to the public spotlight when they became the workhorse chips behind Google's Project Tango.

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Documents

• Movidius Tokyo Seminar, December 2009.
• Movidius "Green Multicore" Keynote presentation, MCC 2011.

See Also

• Nervana